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....With apologies to all those middle-aged viewers already struggling to find anything to watch of an evening, the consensus is that it needs to get more down with the kids. Hence this plan to turn traditional mentoring – which normally involves a successful silverback graciously passing on their accumulated wisdom to young hopefuls – on its head. ...
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....The 50p is a tribute to Newton’s work in the fields of physics and astronomy and features a design is based upon elements of Proposition 11, in Book One of Newton’s Principia Mathematica. The Roya Mint has not yet confirmed how many of the new silver coins will be in circulation, and said it will depend on demand. ...

....With apologies to all those middle-aged viewers already struggling to find anything to watch of an evening, the consensus is that it needs to get more down with the kids. Hence this plan to turn traditional mentoring – which normally involves a successful silverback graciously passing on their accumulated wisdom to young hopefuls – on its head. ...

....The new £10 note also includes a metallic image of Winchester Cathedral, where Austen was buried. It appears overlaid on a transparent window on the note and is gold on the front and silver on the back. ...

....The new $999 (£999 – there is dollar-to-pound equality on the new range of Apple products) iPhone X will come with the company’s new iOS 11 software featuring new on-screen buttons and gestures to replace the standard physical home button, which has been a mainstay of iPhones since the line’s launch in 2007, plus new animated emoji called Animoji. The iPhone X, pronounced 10, will come in two colours, space grey and silver, and is available for pre-order on 27 October, and shipping by 3 November. ...

....Given these criteria, it seems unlikely that a regulated buy-to-let mortgage is an option for you to buy your mother’s home. There may be a small silver lining in that cloud in that, if you were able to take out a mortgage to buy your mother’s home and something happened to you that meant you were unable to keep up repayments on it, you mother could be made homeless if the property had to be sold. ...

....There are other hurdles to overcome. Some Saudis, and not just Islamic fundamentalists, have criticised the privatisation plan as selling the family silver, or asking them to buy something they already own. ...

.... It sounded like a passage from The State We’re In. With his neat silver hair, and wearing a striped shirt with a bright summer jumper slung over his shoulders, McDonnell even looked like an off-duty German industrialist. ...

.... Vancouver, Sydney, Melbourne and Hong Kong have all recently whacked taxes on to foreign investors’ property purchases. Yet so far there is nothing that looks like a silver bullet for the housing crisis. ...

....That means France will continue to rely, as the British economy does, on armies of young people working for low pay on short-term contracts to keep the wheels turning. There is a silver lining, however. ...

....Wilson said: “These were both strong potential growth areas that could have delivered lasting revenue accretion to offset the loss of Apple. That was a pretty dire scenario, akin to selling off the family silver to keep the estate going a little longer. ...

.... Over the past 10 years the number of acres planted with grapevines in England and Wales has grown by 135%, according to the English Wine Producers trade body, and English wines are exported to 27 markets overseas. The inaugural gongs attracted 293 entries, with 20 gold, 36 silver and 127 bronze medals awarded to winning wines. ...

....Mr Kong was drafted into China's national table tennis team aged 16 and went on to become one of the sport's all-time greats. He won a gold medal in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and took a gold and silver four years later in Sydney. ...

....Jacques Goulet, president of health and Wealth at Mercer, which worked with the Forum to produce the report, said the issue was at a crisis point. "There is no one 'silver bullet' solution to solve the retirement gap. ...

....“The retirement savings challenge is at crisis point and the time to act is now,” said Jacques Goulet, president of health and wealth at Mercer, a financial services firm that helped the WEF produce the report. “There is no one ‘silver bullet’ solution to solve the retirement gap. ...

....Key pieces for autumn include an immaculately styled cashmere-and-wool blend city coat, available in eight colours, for £119, and a tiered velvet midi-length day dress for £59. The range is up to speed with catwalk trends: an asymmetric cable knit sweater for £35 has more than a touch of a Burberry piece currently on sale for £550; a romantic full skirt in navy with star embroidery in silver thread for £45 is as near to Christian Dior’s new catwalk collection as most of us are likely to get; and the cult sock boots by Vetements, a sell-out despite their £1060 price tag, have inspired a rather more affordable nude-pink satin version. ...

.... People often choose to pay simply because they just want their data back, whether it's a blockbuster movie or those irreplaceable family photos. These days our digital possessions are the new family silver. ...

.... It told me that Bloomsbury had really thought about it. They wrapped this wonderful purple belly band around the hardback and then the gold and silver on the cover… I knew that people would know that it wasn’t just about camels and ancient silk roads, that it was about the history of the world. ...

.... Analysts have shown it will hit the big six suppliers the hardest, because theirs are the most expensive on the market. So the cap could have one silver lining – loosening the big six’s dominance will weaken one obstacle to the real solution to rising prices. ...

....Bilal’s eclectic menu visits most corners of the globe – lamb tikka pies, shepherd’s pies, burger pies, samosa pies, chicken taco pies finished with tortilla chip shavings – all handmade to her own secret recipe. In March, four of her spicy creations won silver medals at the British pie awards in Melton Mowbray, with Bilal believing she is the first halal baker to triumph at the contest. ...

....As well as Grosvenor Group, the duke also controls the family investment office, which employs more than 470 people and manages rural estates in Lancashire, Sutherland, and southern Spain, as well as the family’s art collection, which includes pieces by Velázquez, Rembrandt and Freud. Speaking about his son in 1993, Gerald Grosvenor said: “He’s been born with the longest silver spoon anyone can have, but he can’t go through life sucking on it. ...

.... Last week, the industry revealed it planned to double production over five years, most of which will be devoted to sparkling. “There’s been so much success with sparkling wine, and people planting vines have been picking up on that story and going down that route,” said Sam Linter, chief winemaker at the Bolney wine estate in Sussex, whose pinot noir, a red grape that can thrive in cooler climes, has won silver awards in international competitions. ...

....” Behind him, an inbound Citroën Berlingo beeps and does not slow, and Bates skips out of its path. He narrows his eyes at a departing Renault Trafic, silver-painted and glinting in the 7am sun. ...

....The stout is made at the St James’s Gate brewery in Dublin. The drink is then pumped into tankers, known as “silver bullets”, and driven 90 miles to east Belfast where it is canned and then sent back to Dublin Port for onward distribution. ...

.... But not that international: its hoardings are once again populated by white models staring into the middle distance, trying their best to look like dashing diplomats as they loll in the glass-bottomed swimming pool that will connect two of the towers, hoping that its glass is as bombproof as the 6in-thick windows of the embassy next door. It’s the same story down the road at the Albert Embankment, where a clutch of silvery silos by Foster and Partners now stands, topped with £22m penthouses. ...

.... The popularity of the drink in Sweden meant the country also played an important role in 18th Century smuggling into Britain. Swedish East India Company merchants were able to buy the best quality Chinese tea because unlike other European countries they were prepared to pay in silver - rather than seeking to barter or trade. ...

....The Royal Mint certainly can’t be accused of holding back when it comes to celebrating the arrival of its new “baby”. There are lots of commemorative versions on sale on its website, including a 2017-dated £1 paired with a 1937 threepenny bit (£20), and one struck in sterling silver and “enhanced with fine gold” (£75). ...

....The new coins have been made at the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, South Wales, at a rate of three million per day. They have a gold-coloured outer ring and a silver-coloured inner ring and are based on the design of the old 12-sided threepenny bit, which went out of circulation in 1971. ...

....The new coins have been made at the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, South Wales, at a rate of three million per day. They have a gold-coloured outer ring and a silver-coloured inner ring and are based on the design of the old 12-sided threepenny bit, which went out of circulation in 1971. ...

....A DfT spokeswoman said the industrial strategy aimed to boost apprenticeships, but otherwise declined to comment. Nonetheless, Brexit could have a silver lining for future manufacturing professionals. ...

....Buying a stake of about 12% in Anglo would diversify Mr Agarwal's holdings. Vedanta focuses on commodities including zinc, lead, silver, copper, iron ore and aluminium, while Anglo's portfolio includes diamonds and platinum. ...

.... Special versions of the new 12-sided coin coin have now gone on sale for as much as £1,325 from the Royal Mint - with some editions already sold out. The platinum proof edition is listed as no longer available, but the gold proof and silver proof versions are still available priced from £75. ...

.... Britain has needed a different capitalism for decades, but it has taken the reality of leaving the EU to drive the point home. Perhaps, just perhaps, it might happen – a silver lining in otherwise very dark clouds. ...

.... Americans, they believed, benefited from a more prosperous global economy and a web of alliances among countries committed to democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. If there is a silver lining in the Trump cloud, it is a new sense of solidarity over core values such as tolerance and equality, sustained by awareness of the bigotry and misogyny, whether hidden or open, that Trump and his team embody. ...

....Camp loved the movie, but something specific in it got him thinking. Thirty minutes into the film, Bond is driving his silver Ford Mondeo in the Bahamas on the trail of his adversary, Le Chiffre, when he glances down at his Sony Ericsson phone. ...

....The group warns that with household incomes under pressure, the UK economy will be forced to become less reliant on consumer spending. It notes a silver lining in the weaker pound for exporters, because the currency’s fall makes their goods more competitive overseas. ...

....“The people who will be the victims of populist policies are the lower-income and middle-class people in whose name the policy is offered,” Summers said. The Italian finance minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, said there was no “silver bullet” that would solve the crisis but it was important to take populists seriously. ...

....The rival German discounter’s sales rose 10% in December year on year, as it opened new stores and lured shoppers with its mix of bargain prices and luxury foods. Lidl sold 200,000 lobsters over the Christmas period thanks to a savvy social media campaign, and cut the price of mini stollen, Serrano ham and silver-topped Christmas puddings. ...

....99 in response to 2,000 people tweeting about its lobster, which has become a mainstay of discounters’ efforts to tempt in middle-class shoppers at Christmas. Lidl also reduced the price of mini stollen, Serrano ham and silver-topped Christmas puddings as part of the social media campaign. ...

....Retailers themselves said Boxing Day had been busy with people braving the cold to queue up in the early hours for bargains. Some also noted a silver lining from the weak pound, which has attracted tourists to the UK on luxury shopping sprees because their holiday money now stretches further. ...

....Factories have had to cope with sharp rises in energy and raw material costs in recent months as the weak pound makes imports to the UK more expensive. For manufacturers that export there has been a small silver lining as the fall in the pound since the Brexit vote has made their goods cheaper to overseas buyers, but that boost has only partially offset the pressure from higher costs. ...

....5bn for the Legendary studio behind films including Godzilla and Pacific Rim. Elsewhere, copper-processing company Anhui Xinke New Materials proved a more unlikely investor in the silver screen. ...

....Its trench coats were worn by British soldiers during the First World War, while in 1953 its wyncol fabric - designed to withstand 100 mph winds - was used by explorer Edmund Hillary in the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest. The coats were also a regular feature on the silver screen, with Sean Connery wearing one in Another Time, Another Place in 1958 and Sophia Loren in The Key. ...

.... Tett said local councils would have a crucial role to play. “There is no silver bullet and everyone must come together to meet the diverse housing needs in our villages, towns and cities,” he said. ...

....A report from the Bank of England’s regional agents on Wednesday flagged the impact of higher import prices on inflation. But the agents – the Bank’s eyes and ears on the ground – noted silver linings from the weaker pound. ...

....It has passed its first reading, but is only likely to become law if it receives government backing. "Whilst not intended as a silver bullet to resolve the problems of Southern, [it] should go some way to disincentivise the complacency over consistent failure to operate a decent service when some form of normality actually returns to our rail service in the southern region," Mr Loughton told MPs. ...

.... Indeed, America’s bog of legal corruption is likely to reach a depth not seen since Warren Harding’s administration in the 1920s. And there really is no silver lining to the cloud that now hangs over the US and the world. ...

....Where stationery is really selling is when it's tapping into trends in gift giving and in fashion. The biggest trend this quarter, for example, is shiny, iridescent, opalescent and silver, says Ms James. ...

.... Changes are already underway to the way payments are made with a “confirmation of payee” system being introduced so that a sort code and account number is typed in to transfer some money, an instant message appears to check that the recipient is the one intended. “There is no silver bullet, but more can be done to prevent these scams in the first instance, and to respond faster when it does happen, in order to give consumers more support and help in recovering their money,” said Nixon. ...

.... Back then, Renzi’s survival was seen as critical to encouraging private sector investors to cough up billions of euros of new capital to refinance the likes of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena and UniCredit. This week’s silver lining theory holds that a political vacuum isn’t so bad if it prods the European Central Bank and the eurozone authorities to take a flexible approach to Italy’s banking mess. ...

....Few people believe the reforms are the best way to bring about more effective government, but they understand it took a great deal of wrangling to even arrive at a compromise package, and that what is on the table is unlikely to be available for a long time. There is a silver lining to a No vote. ...